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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Max Allyson <maxallyson20@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Max Allyson <max.allyson20@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:50:09 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: hello,could you please get back to me


 
READ CAREFULLY AND KEEPCONFIDENTIAL GoodDay My Good Friend,

How are youdoing together with your entire family, I hope all is well? Please carefullyread and understand my reason of contacting you through this email. I am Mr. Max.allyson.The Chief International Relationship Manager Foreign Remittance Unit Ecobank (ECB). OuagadougouBurkina - Faso West Africa.

I want tocontact you for a very beneficial business transaction. There is an abandonedsum of Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars. ($12.5Million) that was deposited by a late customer of this bank called Mr. PaulWellstone.

A veryprominent man who was doing business transaction with my bank here in Burkina Faso.He was a citizen of United state of America and It’s was aftermy research that i realized about his death.

The bank has noknowledge about his death up to date. Upon this discovery that i decided tomake this business proposal to you since the banking laws and guidelines herestipulate that if such funds remain unclaimed here after 12 years years, themoney will be transferred into the Central Bank Treasury as unclaimed fund.

My stand tocontact you now is that, a foreigner has the legal right to put claim to suchdeposit whereby the proof is there. Therefore, I want you to apply as hisbusiness partner. This transaction is going to be a success because, aforeigner is compulsorily needed to present himself or herself as the next ofkin to this deceased bank customer and hence the beneficiary of the fund becausethe fund depositor was a foreigner.

I therefore,desperately need your assistance to claim and receive this fund into youraccount. For the assistance in this transaction, you will be entitled to have40% of the total fund in respect of the provision of your bank account and theassistance you are to render on the process.

55% would befor me as the originator and initiator of the transaction, and the rest 5% willbe used to off-set any minor expenses which may arise during the process oftransferring the fund into your account. I and my entire family will leave hereimmediately to your country when once the transfer is done.

PleaseEndeavour to keep this transaction very secret and highly confidential becausei will lose my position if the bank authority here finds out that you and I arecollaborating in this "Special transaction".

Please also berest-assured that this business is 100% risk-free, and all the information anddata's you will need to make successful claim of this fund in the bank here arefully ready with me here.

Please urgentlyconfirm your willingness and interest to assist me by producing and sendingback to me the needed information below and also call me when once you replied.

1, Your FullName :
2, Your Country:
3, Your Age :
4  Sex :
5, Date ofbirth :
6, Occupation :
7, TelephoneNumber :
8, Fax :
9, PrivateEmail Address :

Thanks and bestregards.
Mr. Max.allyson. 

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